Markets Extra

US cotton harvest progress, September 27

Markets Extra29 Sep 2020by Markets Extra

Agrimoney crunches weekly USDA cotton harvest progress data for the week to Sunday.

For the previous week’s data, click here.

US cotton harvest progress, September 27
	Harvest completed	Change on week	Change on year	Difference from 5-year average
Alabama	-	-	-	-
Arizona	16%	+4	+2	0
Arkansas	6%	+5	-13	-9
California	-	-	-	-
Georgia	4%	+3	-12	-5
Kansas	1%	-	-	-1
Louisiana	23%	+7	-6	-10
Mississippi	10%	+4	-8	-7
Missouri	3%	+1	-3	-4
North Carolina	1%	-	-3	-2
Oklahoma	-	-	-	-
South Carolina	-	-	-	-
Tennessee	2%	+1	-8	-5
Texas	22%	+2	+5	+4
Virginia	1%	0	-6	0
National reading	13%	+2	-2	-1

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